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TRAVELLING TO HAWICK

Alchemy Film & Arts is based in Hawick in the Scottish Borders. We are about 90 minutes from Edinburgh by car and 90 minutes from Newcastle by car. We are a 25-minute drive from the Anglo-Scottish Border.

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival takes place across several venues, all within a stone’s throw of one another: Heart of Hawick, Borders Textile Towerhouse, Heritage Hub and Unit Four: The Cornucopia Rooms.

We take pride in the openness, intimacy, solidarity, humour and non-competitive nature with which we deliver Scotland’s festival of experimental film and artists’ moving image.


FROM EDINBURGH/GLASGOW

Hawick does not have a train station. If travelling to Hawick from Edinburgh, Glasgow or more northern parts within Scotland, the nearest train station with amenities to Hawick is Galashiels, which is the penultimate stop on ScotRail’s Edinburgh-Tweedbank service and a half-hour journey to/from Hawick by car or bus.

The bus servicing Hawick from Galashiels is the Borders Buses X95 service. You can also get an X95 bus direct to Hawick from Edinburgh.

Please refer to the ScotRail timetable for the Edinburgh-Tweedbank schedule.

Please refer to the Borders Buses timetable for the X95 service, which runs between Edinburgh and Carlisle.


FROM LONDON/THE SOUTH

Hawick does not have a train station. Visitors from London most often get the train from Euston to Carlisle or from King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley.

From Carlisle, visitors should take the Borders Buses X95 service, which is a 90-minute journey direct to Hawick.

From Edinburgh Waverley, visitors should take a train to Galashiels, the penultimate stop on ScotRail’s Edinburgh-Tweedbank service and nearest train station to Hawick with amenities. From Galashiels, it’s a half-hour journey to Hawick on the Borders Buses X95 service.

Please refer to the Borders Buses timetable for the X95 service, which runs between Edinburgh and Carlisle.

Please refer to the ScotRail timetable for the Edinburgh-Tweedbank schedule.


INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

Most of our international visitors fly to Edinburgh.

From Edinburgh Airport, you can take a tram or an Airlink 100 bus to Waverley Bridge, which is near to both Edinburgh Waverley train station and the X95 bus stop. Buy tram and Airlink tickets at the airport information desk, at the bus/tram stop, from the driver or in advance online.

Please refer to the ScotRail timetable for the Edinburgh-Tweedbank schedule.

Please refer to the Borders Buses timetable for the X95 service, which runs between Edinburgh and Carlisle.


BY CAR
Hawick is situated on the A7, which runs between Edinburgh and Carlisle. Hawick is also accessible via the A68. Hawick is a 90-minute drive from Edinburgh and Newcastle, just more than an hour from Carlisle, and just more than two hours from Glasgow. From London it is best to allow seven hours.

Hawick has several car parks, the biggest of which – Common Haugh – is free. Common Haugh Car Park is 400 metres from our festival venues.